“ABC World News” Grows Overall Audience Year-to-Year During All 9 Weeks of the Season

For the week of November 14, 2011, “ABC World News with Diane Sawyer” averaged 8.01 million Total Viewers and a 1.8 rating/6 share/2.23 million among Adults 25-54, according to Nielsen Media Research. Growing its key adult news demo (+3% - 2.16 million on w/o 11/7/11) for the 2nd week in a row to hit a season-high, “World News” postedits strongest Adults 25-54 performance innearly8 months – since w/o 3/21/11. In fact, the ABC newscast stood as the only newscast to grow week-to-week in the key adult news demo as both NBC (-7%) and CBS (-3%) were down. Drawing a season-best in Adults 25-54 (2.44 million), Tuesday’s broadcast(11/15/11) stood as “World News’” top regular telecast in the key news demo in over 5 months – since 5/24/11.

“ABC World News” bettered the “CBS Evening News” by 1.26 million Total Viewers and by 299,000 Adults 25-54.

“ABC World News with Diane Sawyer” has grown its Total Viewing audience year-to-year in each of the first nine weeks of the 2011-2012 season. Season to date, “World News” is up in both Total Viewers (+5%) and Adults 25-54 (+2%) compared to the same point last season. Additionally,“World News” has cut its season-to-date gaps with “NBC Nightly News” by double-digits in both Total Viewers(-15%) andAdults 25-54 (-11%), posting its smallest news demo margin (323,000) with the NBC program in 3 years – since the 2008-09 season.